When you register a domain, you are asked to provide an authentic address, email account and telephone number in accordance with the policies adopted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This information, however, is not kept only by the registrar company, but is visible to the public on WHOIS lookup websites as well, so anybody can see your details and lots of people may not be comfortable with that fact. As a result, lots of companies have introduced the so-called Whois Privacy Protection service, which hides the registrant’s contact information and upon a WHOIS check, people will view the details of the registrar company, not those of the domain owner. This service is also called Privacy Protection or Whois Privacy Protection, but all these names refer to the exact same service. Now, most of the Top-Level Domains around the world allow Whois Privacy Protection to be added, but there are still country-code extensions that do not support this service.

Whois Privacy Protection in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from us, you’ll be able to enable Whois Privacy Protection for any of your domain names in case their extensions support this option. You can register or transfer a domain and enable Whois Privacy Protection upon registration or you can activate the service for any of your domain names at any moment later through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. The process is extremely easy – once you sign in, you will have to visit the Registered Domains section where you’ll notice a list of all the domain names that you’ve registered through our company. For each of them you will notice an “Whois Privacy Protection” sign, which will tell you if the service is activated or not. By clicking on it, you can either Whois Privacy Protect the domain name, or you can turn off the service if it is currently activated.

Whois Privacy Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Activating Whois Privacy Protection for any domain is amazingly easy if you have a semi-dedicated server. If the domain name is registered through our company, it will be listed in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is included with each and every semi-dedicated server package. If a specific generic or country-code domain is Whois Privacy Protection-eligible, you will notice a mini button on the right-hand side of that domain. To activate the service, you’ll need to click on it. In the exact same manner, you can also renew or disable the service. You can enable Whois Privacy Protection for a domain during the account activation process as well, but since the Whois Privacy Protection service is optional, we’ll give you the chance to add it to any of your domains at a later point in time in case you think things over and opt to conceal your private information from the general public after you have already ordered the account.